All of a sudden one of my three favourite authors, Oceanrunner, has disappeared totally from the site along with all his or her stories. What happened? Are the stories archived anywhere? Why no notice?
It seems like a great pity that his existing stories are lost to us all (I never downloaded any of them).
I have only retrieved two of them via the Internet Wayback Machine. The rest do not appear.
Will Oceanrunner be posting them somewhere else or is there any other way to access them? (as is apparent, I valued those stories highly).
Since we retain copyright of our stories, he certainly could put them up somewhere else. Since Gallo has contact with OR, perhaps he knows. The mods will take a very dim view if he tries to return and repost them here, I suspect, since all his stuff would have to be remodded. There's a reason the system encourages deactivation over deletion (the former leaves stories in place so they don't need to be re-modded if you return). As Gallo said, he made a stand on principle so if he sticks to that principle, he won't be back here and a lot of the other erotic writing sites will be off-limits to him as well since it's a fairly common category.
I sent him a couple links to places he could submit and get published, and even paid a little. His stories are good enough, certainly.
He seemed to be doing fine.
I liked him very much. He was nice. I wondered where he'd gone.
I think his stories will resurface somewhere, eventually. He's a good writer and I wish him well.
Oceanrunner is currently being held hostage in my basement. He writes for me now, I am his boss. You know that book Misery, by Stephen King? Yeah, it's like that. He writes for me now, he has no choice. Browncoffee is next on my list, then Verbal, and perhaps Herateleia, you have to watch her though, she's a sneaky one, you never know what she may do. Soon I'll have a whole menagerie of erotica authors in my basement, doing my bidding.
He left due to the addition of a certain category. I deleted his email info, if someone saved it, I would love to have it. Thanks.
He sent a message to his friends, telling them what he was doing, and why. I respect his decision.
I also remember several people leaving in a huff when the category was removed for a while, a couple of years ago. You can never please everybody.
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Another of my three favourite authors joins this thread. A pleasure, Browncoffee!
Don't worry about oceanrunner, he became a pirate and is sailing in conquest of Great Britain as we speak.
Rip currents got him! I warned him about running in oceans, but nobody ever listens to me! Hmmmphh!
I've talked with him, too. I'm sad he's not here.
Definitely his writing on that site.
Gone hibernation under ocean bed lol
Now that you have replied to the thread, Burquette, all three of my favorite authors are involved in this thread! Be still, my heart....?